2001 No. 16
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001

Made
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 19771 and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 19902 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act3, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001 and shall come into force on 18th January 2001.

(2)

In this Order—

“the Order” means the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 19944;

“the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.

Change of name of NHS trust and transitional provisions2.

(1)

The trust shall be called the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital National Health Service Trust instead of the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust, and accordingly in article 1 of the Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in article 2 of the Order, for the words “Health Care” there are substituted the words “University Hospital”.

(2)

The change of name effected by paragraph (1) shall not—

(a)

affect any right or obligation of any person; or

(b)

be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name;

and all instruments and other documents which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as if referring to it under its new name.

Further amendments of NHS trust Establishment Order3.

—After article 8 of the Order there shall be added the following article—

“Significant teaching commitment9.

(1)

The trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment for the purposes of paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act.

(2)

One of the non-executive directors of the trust shall be appointed from the University of East Anglia.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health,

Hunt
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994 (“the Establishment Order”) which established the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust.

Article 2 of the Order changes the name of the trust to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital National Health Service Trust. Article 3 provides for recognition of the trust as having a significant teaching commitment and for one of its non-executive directors to be appointed from the University of East Anglia.